Parking at SCC can be a challenge; this is a given. For me, I do not mind driving up and down the rows looking for a place to park, but there is a another parking phenomenon at SCC that for some reason drives me crazy - I refer to them as the 'Paking Spot Stalkers.'
Parking Spot Stalkers….these are individuals, who sit in their cars, and lurk and sulk in the parking lot waiting for unsuspecting people making their way back to their cars. Once the stalking car spots you making your way back to your car, the stalking begins. The car lurches behind you and follows you closely in hopes of snatching your valued parking spot. For some reason, this stalking makes me feel a tad uneasy and something goes off in my head that says..'throw off the stalker.'
To throw off the Parking Spot Stalker:
- Purposely serpentine thru cars and various rows of cars just to throw the stalker off – this makes it difficult for the car to follow. Sometimes I walk slowly forward towards my car and then dramatically turn right around and head straight for the stalking car….the eye contact throws them off.
- Or I walk in a way that leads the stalking car directly to my car allowing the stalker to think he/she has an easy capture. But when I reach my car, instead of going to the driver’s side, I open the back door and grab something out of the car, shut the door and head back to the building. This usually makes the stalker a little cranky.
Okay, as I am typing this I am thinking I am nuts or need to get a new hobby or something. What do you think? Are you a parking spot stalker?
I think I recognize some people in this story! ha ... Seriously, at some point, isn't the obsession with the perfect parking place a waste of time?? ;) Unfortunately, this parking stalker phenomenon will become more and more gruesome the closer we get to Christmas. Maybe it's time for end of 2009 year resolutions ... accept the first parking place you find and enjoy the exercise (say this to yourself over and over again, and by "yourself," I actually mean ME, ha).
ReplyDeleteI love the parking at SCC. As an undergrad at USI in Evansville, IN I was often forced to park a quarter-mile from the social sciences building. At UMSL the parking garage near Stadler fills up by 8:45 AM and stays full until 4PM. Knowing that some people got to park there makes me more bitter as I have to walk across campus.
ReplyDeleteAt SCC even if I park in the very last space of the parking lot farthest from my office, I still have a shorter trek than ever before. AND all the parking is together (more-or-less) so I don't get envious of other lots.
@Hedora I second that! I feel like a chump when I have to park in the auxiliary lot at the mall when just last month I could park anywhere at anytime.
This is great!
ReplyDeleteI will admit, that I am more or less of a parking spot stalker. I like to have the best spot possible. It makes me happy. Sometimes, I will get one at any cost. It's not that I'm lazy and don't want to walk... It's that I feel that I somehow deserve a good parking spot. I know this is awful. If only everyone could have the parking spot of honor...
Great comments! Esther, the 1st step to recovery is admitting you are a stalker....good job!
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